{"id":8548,"date":"2026-04-16T15:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:53:18","slug":"two-illinois-dar-chapters-celebrate-130-years-of-service-and-friendship-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8548","title":{"rendered":"Two Illinois DAR chapters celebrate 130 years of service and friendship &#8211; Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"robot-feature-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shawlocal.com\/resizer\/v2\/4NOQKL24QCTD54YLU2W32REBPI.jpg?w=860&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/><span>The Princeton-Illinois and Illini chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated their mutual 130th anniversary Friday with a luncheon at Lock 16 Cafe in La Salle. <\/span><br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/princeton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Princeton<\/a>-Illinois and Illini chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated their mutual 130th anniversary Friday with a luncheon at Lock 16 Cafe in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/la-salle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">La Salle<\/a>.<br \/>The two chapters are among the oldest in Illinois and the nation. Princeton-Illinois was chartered on April 13, 1896, as the 12th chapter in Illinois. Illini was chartered one month later on May 29, 1897, as the 13th chapter.<br \/>The chapters honored their organizing regents: Darlene Stevens Reeve, daughter of Justus Stevens, the first mayor of Princeton, and Phebe Anthony Sherwood of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/ottawa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Ottawa<\/a>.<br \/>State Regent Marria Blinn, Honorary State Regent Debra Coe, State Chaplain Debby Katzman and District II Director Laurie Perry attended the celebration.<br \/>The Daughters of the American Revolution is a women\u2019s service organization dedicated to promoting historic preservation, education and patriotism. The organization honors current military and veterans while fostering lifelong friendships.<br \/>Any woman age 18 and older may join by documenting her lineage to a man or woman who aided the cause of American Independence through military, civil or patriotic service.<br \/>For more information about local chapters, visit dar.org\/membership.<br \/>Shaw Local News Network provides local news throughout northern Illinois<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxNWkE3SkJEQWFPUl93U0RHOHN4VFVDcktZQ2VQZmRkcXZSWTNkc2stcDNLWjBJaTVlSkQxVjRDV0pxNXA0eUhNOGdNcmYtRmVaLTBpNXUzMDFJSlVnazJadXFvSXlTTXhMMzZ5dm1XVWVucnBYT1dXdHFtQVpoejRiREdJX1NOZndkNUlXTXFHWnFldFB3R3lPMWNlVGVJZHlqU3VyWUpUbWl5LXdfZDAwU1JWMVFxMm0zSjdMZjJYYUNpdGc?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Princeton-Illinois and Illini chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated their mutual 130th anniversary Friday with a luncheon at Lock 16 Cafe in La Salle. The Princeton-Illinois and Illini chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated their mutual 130th anniversary Friday with a luncheon at Lock 16 Cafe in La Salle.The two chapters are among<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}